Ann Fudge

Ann Fudge is the former chairman and CEO of Young & Rubicam Brands, a global network of marketing communications companies.

Fudge previously served as president of the Beverages, Desserts, and Post Division, a $5 billion unit of Kraft Foods, and spent nine years at General Mills. She serves as chair of the United States Program Advisory Panel of the Gates Foundation, as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Brookings Institution, and on the Council on Foreign Relations.

Fudge also serves on the boards of General Electric, Novartis, Unilever, Infosys, the Harvard Corporation Finance Committee, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.